Planet 13 in Las Vegas adds a new entertainment wing. Come for the weed. Stay for food, beverages and a drone dance show. …read more Source:: CNet

Samsung is aiming to use its Galaxy XCover Pro to target fronline workers in multiple industries and bring Microsoft Teams along. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Is this truly the post-PC era? The evidence of this man’s Apple store visit suggests it hasn’t quite arrived yet. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Analytical thinking can lock the mind in a box. New research from professors at Stanford and Santa Clara suggests engineers lack a basic ingredient. The academics’ solution is, well, controversial. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Commentary: I’m so ready to dump my kid into the arms of a robot. Does that make me a terrible parent? …read more Source:: CNet

Slashdot reader Tekla Perry found some interesting quotes in IEEE Spectrum’s “View From the Valley” blog: Apple, Facebook, and Proctor & Gamble executives faced some tough questions about privacy during a CES panel, and pushback from U.S. FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. In one exchanged, Facebook’s representative argued that Apple’s model of adding noise to data…

What the phones at the annual tech confab tell us about some design and price trends for 5G, foldable and gaming phones this year. …read more Source:: CNet

CES isn’t a huge show for gaming, but we still saw some new and notable things. Here are the highlights. …read more Source:: CNet

Ever since [Ian Goodfellow] and his colleagues invented the generative adversarial network (GAN) in 2014, hundreds of projects, from style transfers to poetry generators, have been produced using the concept of contesting neural networks. Unlike traditional neural networks, GANs can generate new data that fits statistically within the same set as the training set. [Bernat…

Best sit down and read this story with a mug of hot steaming (green) tea Tea lovers that chug three or more cups of the warm nectar per week are more likely to live longer than those that drink tea less often, or never touch the wonderful stuff.… …read more Source:: TheRegister